A car door slammed on South Reeds Beach Road, and 300 feeding shorebirds – ruddy turnstones, sandpipers, and red knots – took wing, shrieking out over the Delaware Bay… “The U.S. Division of Fish and Wildlife has determined that these activities do not threaten the survival of the species,” said David Bushek, director of Rutgers’ Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory in Port Norris. “There’s a bit of exaggeration about the dangers” of aquaculture, he said.

Those 20 and under might well have a very different view of the Philadelphia winter from that of their elders. All four of the biggest snows in Philadelphia have occurred since 1996, three of those since 2009… Jennifer Francis at Rutgers and others h…